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People you're calling assholes - did they get paid for the take home task? We're they instructed not to use llms? Have you confirmed they used them and didn't Google the same things you googled? Was the homework not correct?
I’m sure that would never happen.[1]

1: https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/bionic-eye-obsolete-2656624624
Thank you for checking.

> But encouraging payments seems close enough.

Hmmm. I don't think I agree with that. It's such a polarized and emotional debate. It could really benefit from being precise with words.

Making everything sound just slightly worse than it is will help rile up the side that feels slighted and it will let the other side just pass the speaker off as a liar. The result is fewer shared facts, more polarization and a more emotional debate.

The truth of war is bad enough. It doesn't need to be stretched.
My favourite example is a small road in Killarney called The Hahah in English but in Irish written "An Fhaiche" in one place and "An Háhá" in another. OpeStreetMap seems to designate the first one as name:ga and the second one as alt_name:ga.
I agree with most of your comment, but I'll push back on a couple of things:

> No, the Israeli government does not want a ceasefire, neither a permanent one, nor a temporary one.

All the things you wrote before that are things that Israel explicitly says, that it won't agree to a permanent ceasefire. But this statement is your personal opinion, and I don't think it's necessarily justified.

> In the meantime, I do take Netanyahu at his words, that he does not want a ceasefire, and he wants in invade Rafah, to continue the genocide, and to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.

I think your phrasing on this is misleading, since it implies that Netanyahu's words are that he wants to "continue a genocide" and "ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians". That is incorrect. Are words are that he will invade Rafah, the "continue the genocide/ethnic cleansing" thing are your words, not his. (I highly disagree with using those words, but either way, my point stands.)
And they're excellent barriers for preventing people in wheelchairs or using walkers to get through at all.
That’s an error page but also it seems like you’re conceding the point if you can’t provide a single link and are basically telling someone to comb through the output of a large media organization to try to find support for someone else’s argument. At the very least, the Wikipedia criticism page would be a good place to start doing your own research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_c...
We know about the failed attempts, we have no idea about the successful ones, and the ones that are going to be successful in the future.
I really appreciate works like Death of Stalin that are more than happy to move things around in the name of entertainment. It isn't a documentary so it has the freedom to get creative and hit the key notes rather than pure accuracy. They also just said "No need to have Russian accents, the audience is smart enough to just go with what you have."
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There's an awkward reckoning in open source software about inclusivity and protecting the long-term security of projects coming.

Authors from several countries were already suspicious, such as Iran. Anyone from Russia and China or unknown places are all potential risks now.

Combined with recent inclusive ideologies, it’s gonna cause hard conversations. There will be a furthering in segmenting the Internet. Why fight contributing to an open source project when you could fork it and contribute with your allies?

For true enemies, there’s no risk to licensing or copyright issues. You can merge changes from the original, no problem. China even falls into this as there’s a limited ability for US companies to litigate within the country.

People think the Network State is hot, but at the end of the day, the Internet still has borders.
Everyone except for the people who voted to EOL those older OSes people still use.
Not everywhere! Horses were banned in Rome (and many other places) for exactly this reason.
I feel like I somehow recovered a pre-existing desire for this to exist.
> The American obsession with race is deeply rooted in … [history of slavery]

I think that’s part of it. But Europeans invented (or at least widely commercialized ) this instance of slavery, and they aren’t fretting about it. I think America’s fiery vivisection of its own morality Probably comes more out of Its role as “world saving hero police” in WWII.

The ‘suddenly thrust upon them heroism’ caused them, in the subsequent decades, to then intensively examine all the ways they were, perhaps, not living up to it.

And also, I think there’s a more fundamental thing that by being in a role of “world police” you necessarily have to use violence, but whenever you use violence, there’s always inevitably guilt and shame attached to that somewhere in the psyche, or the collective subconscious.

So… while much of the violence may have been done under the idea of righteousness, I don’t think the American people can easily escape the guilt that comes with that and I think that’s one of the reasons they kind of have such Tumultuous self reflection, about how good they really are or not.

Pretty complex national psyche.
>didn’t we just used to call it “affirmative action”?

no. in short, affirmative action represented an attempt at "equality of opportunity" in the belief that some extra pushes would remediate "the problem"

"equity" refers to forcing particular outcomes, using various measure that operate as "quotas" including the lowering of standards like entrance exam scores.

Affirmative action did not result in enough doctors meeting various criteria, so we must need to force the results we want by whatever means necessary; since we believe all people are equal, anything short of that must be the result of a pernicious mechanism
Do you have any specific (or similar to it) examples you could provide?
Lot's of great work on dafny in general!
The software glitch that was involved in 1,000 people being arrested had nothing to do with street names.

By this point, the flaws are pretty well-documented. If you find anything in the reports about handling of apostrophes, feel free to cite it.

The underlying communication protocol from node to node wasn't even SQL; it was an XML format called "Riposte." There was, perhaps, SQL involved in eventual account database updating, but issues had occurred in message transit even before that phase, and it's those issues that led to account reconciliation errors and (incorrect) charges of fraud on the part of the subpostmasters.
I agree. I'm assuming that https://unherd.com/newsroom/mit-becomes-first-elite-universi... is true because otherwise they'd be fabricating quotes and that seems unlikely, although the site does have an ideological slant.

It's a little surprising that more publications haven't reported on it yet though.
I meant winning in the context of military conflict. Obviously not in reputation.
Maybe a better comparison is SpaceX. In 2022 they had around 12,000 people.
And? Not a great counter point though.

BBC is known to have issues with factuality.

https://deadline.com/2023/10/bbc-wrong-to-speculate-on-gaza-...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/21/bbc-reporter-nig...

But to address your point:

https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/5/3/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D...

"Russia is ready to discuss serious peace proposals, and Zelensky is rushing British weapons
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Israeli Arabs know they have it much better in Israel than anywhere else in the region. They historically have been highly opposed to proposed land-swaps/unification deals with the PA.
Most of those places do not have any automatic bollards.

Who would place them at a red light?
> You can not. Inciting violence and calls for criminal action is a well establish limit of the First Amendment, but that is not what they are doing from what I gathered in this thread.

Brandenburg v Ohio (the current standard for what constitutes incitement) literally says your free speech rights run up to and include advocacy for violent overthrow of the government. The limitation it establishes is "incitement to imminent lawless action", with heavy emphasis on "imminent".
Even if we assume smartcar--pedestrian collisions are just as dangerous for pedestrians as pickup--pedestrian collisions, a smartcar--smartcar collision is going to be a lot less dangerous for the occupants than a smartcar--pickup or pickup--pickup collision at equal speeds.

Not disagreeing with your overall point, but vehicle size and weight still contribute an awful lot to the >40000 vehicle fatalities in the US each year.
I don’t subscribe to that view of nationhood. It’s a constant source of discomfort (not just at the office, but visiting people’s houses or visiting my in laws) but it’s not my place to impose on the people whose ancestors built this country. I feel bad enough that I won’t let my wife have a dog, but I have to draw the line somewhere.
> or even actively damaging to consumers, the environment, etc.

Jury's still out on this one
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> though i think it’s obvious a local city engineer ought to be held criminally liable for their neglect

I’m always surprised when armchair observers casually call for criminal prosecution of engineers from other fields.

There are obviously some cases where criminal neglect should be pursued, but the frequency with which people demand criminal charges against someone, anyone whenever something happens is getting out of control. I also don’t think these people have considered what would happen when the tables are turned on themselves, such as being involved in something like a security breach or any number of other scenarios where any of us could get caught up in a situation with damages to someone.

There are countries where engineers are routinely held liable when anything goes wrong, and the outcome is not good. You get one of two situations:

1. Smart people avoid the job like the plague, knowing that they could end up on the end of a witch hunt trial when anything goes wrong. When the government strives to make an example out of someone, it barely matters if you did your job well or not. Someone must pay, and it might be you. So smart people avoid the job, leaving the role to unqualified people who will take the pay in exchange for the risk.

2. Nothing gets done or approved without incredible amounts of overspending to be extra-extra-extra careful. If you’re possibly criminally liable for damages in a situation and there isn’t much downside for you not approving it, the natural action is to avoid approving anything. Either that or you overengineer it to such an extreme that it’s incredibly expensive and maybe impractical to build, but hey, at least nobody can say you didn’t try.

When you look at licensed engineering professions, they tend to be more about ensuring that designs meet agreed upon standards. If the engineer involved was following the standards and actually reviewed the design, it’s unlikely there would be any basis for criminal charges. If we abandon that standard and instead hold engineers to impossibly high standards of evaluating every design for worst case outcomes, then you get the nightmare situation above.

But I guess this is the internet and articles like this are more about populist outrage than practical governance.
Our understanding of what constitutes harassment or a hostile work environment has evolved over time. Likewise, there is growing acceptance that systematic racism exists in the U.S.

The original sin of this country was slavery. We continue to try to find ways to ameliorate the long term harm which it did to our national culture. DEI is one of those attempts. And likewise, there is a desire to treat all people as individuals with equal opportunity. For the most part, this country has not lived up to that ideal.
I mean, sure, but the question was about the First Amendment.
>I don’t think your comparison to the Irish Revolution is accurate as there is no country occupying the United States.

What exactly does the US have to do with anything at all here?

I'm only responding to the claim that "political problems can be solved without resorting to violence". I never made a comparison to the US. The people of Ireland were definitely NOT able to solve their political problems without violence.

>Nazism was the result of violent extremism becoming politically mainstream

Yes, but that's beside the point. Germany's neighbors had no choice but to resort to extreme violence to handle the Nazi problem. It was either that and surrender and line up for slavery or death camps.
This looks really interesting! I tried exploring deep RL myself some time ago but could never get my agents to make any meaningful progress, and as someone with very little stats/ML background it was difficult to debug what was going wrong. Will try following this and seeing what happens!
Would those countries not have similar concerns about US maintainers? The larger issue is successful projects with too few active maintainers.
A human isn't going to have much effect on the mass of a smart car, but something like a planter, another car, a curb, a tree, the front of a 7-elevn etc. is going to stand a much better chance of stopping a smart car than it is a 4,900 + lb. F-150 that carries its weight up high.

If there is a tree between me and a speeding car, I would much rather it be a Smart car than just about any other car.
> The point is that when you control for these factors, a woman with the same title and responsibilities as a man will earn less for the same work.

That can't possibly be true, because in a market economy, the more-expensive workers (men) would be laid off and replaced by less-expensive, equally-capable "same title and responsibilities" workers (women). This doesn't seem to be the case on a grand scale, which means it's more deep/complex than the "men get paid more than women" headline we're all used to seeing.
The idea is far older than BWA. The entire point of the Burrows-Wheeler transform is to create a compact order-k "language model" for every value of k simultaneously. And then use that for data compression.

David Wheeler reportedly had the idea in the early 80s, but he rejected it as impractical. Then he tried publishing it with Michael Burrows in the early 90s, but it was rejected from the Data Compression Conference. Algorithms researchers found the BWT more interesting than data compression researchers, especially after the discovery of the FM-index in 2000. There was a lot of theoretical work done in the 2000s, and the paper mentioned by GP cites some of that.

The primary application imagined for the FM-index was usually information retrieval, mostly due to the people involved. But some people considered using it for DNA sequences and started focusing on efficient construction and approximate pattern matching instead of better compression. And when sequencing technology advanced to the point where BWT-based aligners became relevant, a few of them were published almost simultaneously.

And if you ask Heng Li, he gives credit to Tak-Wah Lam: https://lh3.github.io/2024/04/12/where-did-bwa-come-from
What’s the strategy you use to decide which colours are the “main” ones to extract? Do you have a particular algorithm you’re using that you’d share?
Right in the middle of a cycle path is extremely obvious though. You basically have to not be paying attention for an extended period of time if you want to run into them.
Are there good historical references of the inflection point you talk about? Thanks!
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your handle is also appropriate given the epic amounts of electricity needed to power all of that gear. so many articles on the energy consumption of cryptocurrency, yet so few for model training.
In 1944, the USD was pegged to gold at $35/troy oz. The current spot price of gold is $2300/troy oz. 1 troy oz of gold in 1944 = 1 troy oz of gold in 2024.

This gives the price of the Manhattan Project as $131 billion in 2024 dollars.
Suppose you have a misaligned intersection, so a car that drives straight through ends up on the sidewalk. This is a bad design because pedestrians get hit by cars.

Suppose you have the same intersection but put bollards on the sidewalk. This is a bad design because drivers hit the bollards and damage their cars.

You want a design where cars go through the intersection without hitting anything.
The shareholders normally just reinvest the dividends. That isn't bad for the economy.

> manufacturing things that are wholly useless

Companies manufacture things that people want to buy. Presumably those people find the things useful. Companies that manufacture things people don't want go out of business.
https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/5/3/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D...

"Russia is ready to discuss serious peace proposals, and Zelensky is rushing British weapons

"

Just a minute of searching directly.
GPLv4? I doubt this would be a bigger success story than v3 and v2. Permissive licenses won the war against Copyleft a long time ago.
That’s complicated. The US has criminal and civil law. With regards to criminal law in terms of expression and liberties there are very few things you cannot do. The default is to lean towards liberty always.

In terms of civil law you can generally sue anyone for anything at anytime unless there is existing law or contracts halting further civil actions.
All of the automatic bollards I've seen are very clearly signed, and frequently have lights indicating their presence. It is very rare that they are not very obvious.

In any case, if you are following another vehicle so closely that you cannot see a hazard in the road in front of you, it is your fault for hitting that hazard (by law in most places).
Do you really remember 20 years ago? I do. It was year 2004.

Linux kernel 2.6 was still in development and people are using 2.2 or even 2.0.

The latest stable Debian was Woody at that time, using Linux kernel 2.2.

GNU/Linux was still struggling to support POSIX threads. ext3 was merged to the Linux kernel in 2001 and people were still using ext2. ext2/ext3 has year 2038 problem but in year 2004, nobody think it seriously. Even the ext4 had year 2038 problem and later got a workaround to prolong its life for another few hundred years.

UTF-8 standard was just finalized in 2003 and nobody thought it will be the default character encoding. No GNU/Linux Distros at that time uses UTF-8 as the default locale. Most people believed UTF-16 was the future but reluctant to change , except for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft was the early adopter of Unicode and they are paying for their failure of choosing UTF-16 while all other OSes, web browsers and everything later choose UTF-8.

People of 2004 realized the year 2038 problem. But there was no way we could use 64 bit signed integer as time_t at that time. Even for the filesystem.

Even if we tried to fix it in 2004, it was probably a bad choice that needed to be redone right now.

Personally, I think that if people are still using Linux kernel 2.2 or Windows CE in their embedded system in year 2038, they have serious other problems as well.
The flagship feature of React 19 is a "compiler", but doesn't seem to have the main features of Forget. (inferred effect dependencies) I'm guessing it's not coming any time soon.
Thank you very much! I'd be really interested to know if your agents will eventually make progress, and if these notebooks help - even if a tiny bit!

If you just want to see if these algorithm can even work at all, feel free to jump on the `solution` folder and pick any algorithm you think could work and just try it out there. If it does, then you can have all the fun rewriting it from scratch :) Thanks again!
> Why would you allow that to continue in your country?

If you value liberty or democracy the only valid question is: why wouldn’t you?
Why couldn't this be segmented into separate repositories or something? There's a wide gamut of completely different styles that would probably be better served by splitting them up
A lot of people have either straight up bad ideas or ideas that don't take into account things that people and departments outside of their immediate circle need/want.

Most people's ideas aren't novel so they won't be implemented for the same reasons they weren't last time. Occasionally, someone does come up with something new and a good manager should recognize that but the experience for the vast majority of people is that they were ignored.
You are right, actually. It is too late for me to edit, but from the second paragraph onward I needed to prefix with “I think”.

Rereading it I can see how this is misleading, that was not my intention.
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I guess the people should hire better lobbyists.
"Equities in Dallas" being a Liar's Poker reference that vel0city didn't recognize doesn't affect the validity of the comment, specifically "Its the second biggest financial area behind NY in the US".
Something sounds a bit off if your IT professionals don’t understand files and folders. In any case, my anecdata in an organisation of over 1000 windows computers and about 400 macs is the windows device owners are generally the ones with icons strewn about the place and displays plugged in set to mirror ‘because it gives them more space’ but I tend to find this is because the windows users are the ‘business’ users whereas the macs are the developers.
That’s a lot less incendiary than your first example. As a simple point of fact, Israel is occupying territory whose inhabitants do not want them there and are not given a right to vote. What term would you consider more accurate?

Your last point seems to be unawareness that the name given is Hamas’ official name for that operation. Using it in the quoted sentence seems very similar to, say, reporting that U.S forces attacked Houthi rebel positions in the sixth month of Operation Prosperity Guardian. Whether or not you like the term, it’s the official name and it’s reasonable to expect readers to be familiar with it.
Female labor force participation near the end of a major world war was already probably much higher than just a few years before.
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A free open source project is perfectly capable of attracting wreckers with no other motivation than that kind of person has a lot of free time.

(Example being the wave of "you need a code of conduct" discourse was started by someone who needed to look feminist because they were fired by GitHub for harassing women.)